Hi,

I am new with animations and I try to figure out what is the right/best/proper workflow to build multiple separate action in same scene. Let’s say I have something like this:

Camera action1: 0-100F
Sim1: 101-200F
Camera action2: 201-300F
Sim2: 301-400F
Sim3: 401-500F

All actions shares same cameras, lights, environmental, render settings, etc. I was thinking that each action is its own file but then there is no link between these settings. If I build everything in same scene in chronology order, it is very difficult to edit when I have to add/remove frames from middle.

I think this sounds a basic question but I haven’t seen any tutorial how people handle this properly?

Thx

Normally each sequence is rendered out separately, and then combined using editing software. Editing is one of the last steps in a pipeline, and Houdini does not really have video editing features.

Normally it goes tracking/layout -> animation -> fx/lighting -> compositing -> editing/conform -> final delivery

You can certainly output multiple sequences from the same scene file, but normally there is little reason to have them start at different frames.